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U.S. EMPLOYMENT COST INDEX, Q4 2024 COMMENTARY

2024 Fourth Quarter Summary: Year-on-year growth of employee compensation softens but remained solidly above consumer inflation.
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U.S. EMPLOYMENT COST INDEX, Q4 2024 COMMENTARY

U.S. EMPLOYMENT COST INDEX, Q3 2024 COMMENTARY

2024 Third Quarter Summary: Compensation costs continue to rise faster than inflation: good news for workers, especially union workers.
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U.S. EMPLOYMENT COST INDEX, Q3 2024 COMMENTARY

U.S. EMPLOYMENT COST INDEX, Q2 2026 COMMENTARY

Wages Just Lost the Race Against Inflation — What the Latest Q2 ECI Report Tells Us
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U.S. EMPLOYMENT COST INDEX, Q2 2026 COMMENTARY

The implications of pay range transparency on job application preferences and negotiations

Alice Lee, assistant professor of organizational behavior, Tae-Youn Park, director of research at Cornell’s Institute for Compensation Studies, and Sungyong Chang, assistant professor of management and organizations at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management published Feb. 16 in the Journal of Applied Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001360
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The implications of pay range transparency on job application preferences and negotiations

U.S. Employment Cost Index, Q1 2026 Commentary

2026 First Quarter Summary—Inflation closes in on compensation cost growth. Read the PDF for more details.
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U.S. Employment Cost Index, Q1 2026 Commentary

Last Mile Delivery Student Research Team

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Last Mile Delivery Student Research Team

Thank you for Joining Us at ClubFest!

Cornell Compensation Club is currently accepting new members!
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Cornell research: small firms may have good reasons to offer better wages

Cornell Chronicle
Smaller firms may offer better pay packages to new employees... under some conditions.
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Cornell research: small firms may have good reasons to offer better wages

The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College

Prof Jessi Streib will speak on her new book Friday, September 6 on findings that show career pay equity in some populations that buck assumptions about student resources coming in to college.
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The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College

Pay remains stubbornly attuned to gender. What to do?

A look at recent studies and strategies to address a persistent problem in pay.
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Pay remains stubbornly attuned to gender. What to do?

U.S. EMPLOYMENT COST INDEX, Q2 2024 COMMENTARY

2024 Second Quarter Summary: Compensation costs continue to rise faster than inflation: good news for workers, especially union workers
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U.S. EMPLOYMENT COST INDEX, Q2 2024 COMMENTARY

Research Director Park publishes study on turnover after downsizing

New research co-authored by ICS' Tae Youn Park.
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Research Director Park publishes study on turnover after downsizing